http://www.camelias.net/pazos/tagrelo/pageng_1.html

Old Camellia sasanqua in Torres Agrelo.

Pazo de Mariñán.AECamellia members.
Http://camelias.net/pazos/marinan/pmarineng_1.html

Villar d'Allen Palace.
Http://www.camelias.net/pazos/qvallen/qvalleng_1.html

http://www.camelias.net/pazos/tagrelo/pageng_1.html

Thanks.
Daniel Dominguez O Kintos.

Pazo de was built XVII th- XVIII th Centuries over the remains of an old fort.
It has very beautiful gardens having one of oldert European Camellia reticulate CV.’CAPTAIN RAWES’.

In Pazo de Oca, the Camellia reticulata CV. ‘CAPTAIN RAWES’ measures 13 meters (43f.?).
The elderly Camellias of the gardens of the PAZO Country houses (rural Palaces) of Galicia , were planted almost all in the XIXth, but some from two to three meters of perimeter, it is probable that they were planted on the XVIIIth. Century.

In www.camelias.net, we want to teach(show) the fans, galicians elderly Camellias.

In Pazo de Castrelos, The Camellia japonica CV. ‘ORANDA KO’ she is named Matusalem of the camellias by her great glass and powerful trunks.

AEC members visted Camellia japonica centenary in Quinta of Rodrigo Leitâo.

Pardon for my evil English.
Regards.

Some *Camellia japonica *, they have begun his flowering. They are Camellias that they bloom in Autumn. The photographies are of flowers of very ancient and known Camellias.
Regards..

The area must has the best weather condition for growing camellia. How hot it gets in the summer and how cold is it in the winter?

Galicia is approximately in the same Latitude that New York.

But our community is influenced by the Gulf Stream of Mexico. Our country is orientated to the Atlantic Ocean and supports a moderate temperature the whole year.

In the warmest summers days, it does not happen of them 30ºC (86ºF). In winter, in the coldest days, strange they go down of them 0ºC (32ºF).

I live on the coast. In winter we have of 40ºF (in the coldest days) up to 60ºF.
In Spring and Autumn, of 50ºF to 70ºF, but with many days equal to the summer.

In summer, of 60ºF to 80ºF.
The soils are acid. Most of the country has substratum of granite. The rains distribute during the year, but the summers months are slightly dry.
Pardon for my evil English.
Regards.
Daniel Dominguez O Kintos

I send my regards, from my land of Camellias.

Some of the photographies are of places very near to Vigo.

This is Camellia japonica CV.'CITY OF VIGO'

Every year are celebrated in different cities of Galicia, the International Exhibition of the Camellia.

This one year 2005 corresponded(fitted) to the city of Vigo, 41 celebrated anniversary.

Regards

In the web page www.camelias.net, we have put a new work that treats on the gardens of the Pazo de Oca.

In these gardens, besides many elderly Camellias there is a Camellia reticulata of big red and semidouble flowers, which is considered to be highest how of Europa.

Since in other works, the text I have written it.

Pardon for my evil English.
Regards.

Camellia reticulata CV. ‘CAPTAIN RAWES’

I admire the Camellias of Portugal. The North of Portugal and Galicia, they are admirable places to see Camellias.
The soil and the climate must be very similar to those of his places of origin in Asia.

In the International Camellia Journal, (International Camellia Society), of the year 2005, there are a few interesting articles about the Camellias in Portugal and Galicia.

It is very beautiful, to see in many public Portuguese gardens, old Camelias. For example, Camellia japonica ' Mathotiana rubra ' appears in exemplary elders, with the nice mutation Camellia japonica ' Augusto Leal de Gouveia Pinto '.

On the life of the Camellias in cold places, I understand that it must be difficult.
But, you will cultivate some of Camellia japonica they are very resistant to the cold. The studies of the Dr. Ackermam, they have given the fans of the Camellias, the Hybrids of Camellia oleifera.

In my experience, the principal problem to cultivate Camellias in the exterior, is the dry air. With dry air and high temperatures, the life of the Camellias is more difficult than with cold temperatures.
Pardon for my evil English.
Regards.

On the 9th and 10th of December, 2006, there was celebrated the Exhibition of Camellia sasanqua in Boiro (A Corunna),
They visited us, a group of members of the Friends' Association of the Camellia of The Turón valley, ( Mieres, Asturias).

We visit the House Museum of the Galician poet Rosalía of Castro.
We saw in flowering, trees of winter Camellia. Camellia japonica ‘ALBA PLENA’, Camellia japonica ‘LADY HUME'S BLUSH’, Camellia japonica ‘MARIA IRENE’.
We had the fortune of seeing the beginning of the flowering of the Camellia X hibride ‘ROSALIA DE CASTRO’. In this one place, the first specimen is of this one variety obtained by Moreira da Silva ( Porto, Portugal) and that gave to the House Museum of the Galician poet Rosalia of Castro.

Merry Christmas ¡¡¡
Daniel D. F. OKintos

I have realized in a garden, a photography in the first days of February. To compare a flower of Camellia reticulate (I think that it is a C. reticulate CV. " BUTTERFLY WINGS ") and a Camellia japonica CV. ‘DONA HERZILLA DE FREITAS MAGALHAÊS’ (10-11 cm. of diameter, 4 inches of diameter ap.).

Pardon for my bad one notarizes in English.
Regards.
Daniel D. OKintos.

The reti, 'Captain Rawes' was introduced to England in 1820 and the japonica 'Alba Plena'( or 'Snow Pagoda' named in Chinese) was also introduced to Europe near 1840. Both plants were collected from Guandong, China. Sometimes they just gave the plant a new name.

The beloved opera 'La Traviata' had premiere in 1853. The leading role, Violetta had the white camellia flower in her hand, that was 'Alba Plena'. The commercial trade among the regional countries in Europe were obviously very active.

Javier si ves ésto, acuérdate de los buenos tiempos y haber si charlamos un día.

Dolores Urcola de Zuloaga, Marquise of Aranda and Lady of Rubiáns. Popularly " The Marquise of the Camellias ", has died in Rubiáns's Country House, 105 years after age.

The fans of the Camellias and all the members of the Spanish Camellia Society, feel deeply the loss of one of the most important collectors of Galicia. One of the persons who more helped to the consolidation of the International Exhibition of the Camellias, from his beginning does more than forty three years.

In the Gardens of Rubiáns's Country House, besides the Camellias there live some of the monumental trees more important of Galicia and Spain.

Gardens of Rubiáns's Country House. Visit of the Spanish Camellia Society members.

There are exhibitions of Camellias all the weekends of winter and spring principles. The best epoch is at the end of February and beginning of March. It coincides with the Exhibition XLIV International of Camellia ( Vigo City ).

This one year 2007, we receive groups of lovers of the Camellia, of many countries, between them a group of cameliófilos Japanese. The Dr. Sitgeo Matsumoto, president of the Japanese Society of the Camellia. He formed a part of the Juror of the XLIIIrd Expo. International of the Camellias, together with Mikio Akashi, important businessman cultivator of Camellias in Akashi Nursery (Kurume City, Japan).

Pardon for my evil English.
Regards.

Jurors XLIIIth.,Mikio Akashi, Daniel D.F. O Kintos, Sitgeo Matsumoto.

Jurors XLIII Expo. inernacional Camellias. Pontevedra 2007.

Camelias amarillas en la XLIII Exposición internacional de Pontevedra 2007

Camellia japonica 'ALBA PLENA'

C.japonica ‘Alba simplex’ A Toxa Island

Camellia japonica 'CAMURÇA' Syn.'LADY HUME'S BLUSH'

With surprise, I saw in the garden, a group of elderly camellias. The perimeter of the trunk, of the major camellia, it is 2.30 m. (7.5 ft?). Undoubtedly, this one camellia is one of the most important of Galicia. Only one was in elderly flowering C. japonica ' MATHOTIANA ALBA '. There was no good light and the photography did not go out for me well.

'MATHOTIANA ALBA', is one to cultivate very commonly in Galicia. In the exemplary old men of this one to cultivate, almost always there appears the mutation ' MATHOTIANANA ROSEA'. To read something on Camellias in Galicia, you can see the last number of the International Camellia Journal (2007), in an article of Shigeo Matsumoto, president of the Japanese Camellia Society.
Regards.
Daniel Dominguez F. oKintos

Camellia japonica ‘MATHOTIANA ALBA’ mutación ‘MATHOTIANA ROSEA’

Cupressus macrocarpa in "Torre de Quintans", Meis, Pontevedra